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Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1956

In this Act,-- (a) "harmful publication" means any book, magazine, pamphlet, leaflet, news-paper or other like publication which consists of stories told with the aid of pictures or without the aid of pictures or wholly in pictures, being stories portraying wholly or mainly-- (i) the commission of offences; or (ii) acts of violence or cruelty; or (iii) incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature; in such a way that the publication as a whole would tend to corrupt a young person into whose hands it might fall, whether by inciting or encouraging him to commit offences or acts of violence or cruelly or in any other manner whatsoever; (b) "State Government" in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof; (c) "young person" means a person under the age of twenty years.

Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....(1) in respect of any publication it shall be lawful for any police officer to seize the same wherever found in the territories to which this Act extends. SECTION 05: APPEAL TO HIGH COURT AGAINST ORDER OF FORFEITURE Any person aggrieved by an. order of forfeiture passed by the State Government under Sec. 4-may, within sixty days of the date of such order apply to the High Court to set aside the order, and upon such application the High Court may pass such order as it deems fit. SECTION 06: POWER TO SEIZE AND DESTROY HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS (1) Any police officer or any other officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government may seize harmful publication. (2) Any Magistrate of the first class may, by warrant, authorize any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector to enter and search any place where any stock of harmful publication may be or may be reasonably suspected to be, and such police officer may seize any publication found in such place if in his opinion it is a harmful publication. (3) Any publication seized under the dub section(1) shall be produced, as soon as may be, before a Magistrate of the first class, and any publication seized.....